Senior Automation Engineer

Let's transform the business of healthcare! At The Craneware Group, we are dedicated to empowering our customers with industry-defining insights that pave the way for a brighter future.

If you are an energetic, forward-thinking individual with a passion for innovation, we invite you to join our thriving team of more than 750 dedicated professionals. Together, we'll fuel the expansion of our SaaS platform and develop cutting-edge applications that redefine the healthcare landscape.

For UK Only Postings: The Craneware Group supports a flexible work environment as well as a collaborative and teamwork focused atmosphere. Employees will be expected to work a hybrid working arrangement spending 40% of their time per month in the Tanfield office - approx 2 days per week.

The Team

Craneware is looking for passionate Senior Automation Engineers to design, develop and deliver high quality software solutions for TCG products which drive improvements in the US-based healthcare market. We are growing a team of strong thinkers and innovators that are willing to work closely with product and customer-facing teams to design and develop new applications in the Cloud.

We are expanding our current platform and SaaS product offerings by using cutting edge technology to process very large data sets that will provide actionable insights for our customers. Architecting our solutions with a best of breed approach to technology, the .NET platform is leveraged in order to provide the necessary scale and rapidly bring products to market. Innovative, collaborative, and agile are critical skills that our engineering team members must possess in our environment.

You'll be working with a small and friendly agile team of talented software and automation engineers to develop, design and execute automated testing for software solutions for Craneware products.

Our Senior Automation Engineers are responsible for the overall design, maintenance, and execution of automated testing of data and web products using a variety of automation and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools.

Tech Stack: C# (Web API, Azure Functions), Angular, SQL Server, Cosmos DB, Postman, Selenium

You Will Be

• Designing, maintaining, and executing automated testing of API and Web Service test data and web products on multiple platforms and devices ensuring consistency and sufficient test coverage.
• Building and maintaining a development plan for upskilling existing team and new recruits to become automation engineers at Craneware.
• Managing automation training and development information and responsible for all automation content on the Craneware Wiki.
• Teaching and mentoring less experienced team members with regard to automation skills and principles to create resources that will enhance the automation effort.
• Managing and configuring performance, load and stress testing using automated tools, ensuring production of high quality deliverables that are scalable and performant.
• Managing, configuring and overall responsibility for the test environment and automation tools in association with engineering colleagues such as dev, architecture, and DevOps.
• Working with Agile delivery teams to ensure automation test goals, objectives, and expectations are effectively met.
• Defining and providing statistics to measure team performance, quality and success achieved as a result of automation.
• Working with QA Principals ensuring QA standards, policies and priorities are in line between manual and automation areas of the team ensuring adherence to the Craneware Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) methodology.
• Managing source control of automation artifacts within GIT and MTM.
• Recording technical non-functional requirements with the architecture team and developing and running tests around non-functional requirements.

You Will Bring

• 5 years' work experience in QA discipline with at least 3 years' automation testing or demonstrable experience.
• Ability to define and implement plans for driving, improving, and maintaining automation.
• Demonstrable extensive experience and ability to design, develop and deploy automated solutions.
• Ability to define automation plans with regard to chosen databases such as SQL, NoSQL, and JSON.
• Ability to define automation plans for isolated API, integrated micro service and Performance/load/stress testing.
• Ability to define automation plans for testing cloud based solutions such as Microsoft Azure, AWS.
• Ability to define automation plans and process in relation to Git, TFS, and/or other source control/configuration management systems.
• Ability to apply software development methodologies and practices, including agile development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery in line with Craneware Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) methodology.
• Demonstrate practical application of object oriented design principles.
• Ability to define automation plans with regard to Microsoft test frameworks and/or JUnit, NUnit, TFS, Test Manager and Visual Studio Coded UI, Selenium.
• Ability to define automation plans for Lab Management in a virtualised environment such as Cloud or VM Labs.
• Ability to apply automation frameworks using best practices.
• Ability to manage complex projects, develop test plans and provide leadership/mentorship to QA colleagues.
• Ability to perform in an Agile environment in line with the Craneware Application Lifecycle Management (CALM) methodology.
• Situational awareness with regard day to day activities across all teams with regard to anything that might affect automation.